About four months ago I started on a project; a Japanese language app for intermediate and upper beginners. I've always been disappointed with the number of apps at this level. Almost every app I've seen is for beginners, which is awesome, but I need something a little more challenging.

So here it is! I would like to share it with all of you because I think many people who use this site could benefit from this kind of practice. (Especially if they are a t a similar level to me; where the beginner stuff is too easy but reading a book or watching TV in Japanese is still a bit too hard.) It's got listening practice, quiz games, reading comprehension, and focuses on building new vocabulary.

It's called "Japanese with Sophie" and it's available for both android and iOS phones and tablets.

I agree, looks cool. Is it a comprehensive review of vocab for that level range, or is it more of a smattering/ sampling that reviews a bit here and there? I assume if it's only $1.99 it's probably the latter? Did you have any native help to proof-read sentences or did you manage without?

Shiroisan wrote:I agree, looks cool. Is it a comprehensive review of vocab for that level range, or is it more of a smattering/ sampling that reviews a bit here and there? I assume if it's only $1.99 it's probably the latter? Did you have any native help to proof-read sentences or did you manage without?

I'll probably download it either way

Awesome!

Basically I picked a few subjects and worked on vocabulary relating to them (cooking, housework, shopping, emotions). I tried to include mostly words that are different than the obvious ones you learn as a beginner. There's probably around 60 focused vocab words per lesson. And I am currently working on a new lesson at the moment which I will add to the app as soon as it's done. So if you already have the app, I'm going to be adding new lessons in updates so they are free. Woo!

But I definitely had native speakers help me and do the voice acting and such.

I got it, it's great. In terms of design/ quality/ effect I'd give it 5 out of 5 easily. The only problem is, at the moment, it's quite short on material for binge studiers like myself. I look forward to updates

Edit: I understand it must take a while to do all those illustrations/ animations, perhaps fitting 1 or 2 more words per illustration would make it easier to increase the amount of vocab? Just a thought.

Shiroisan wrote:I got it, it's great. In terms of design/ quality/ effect I'd give it 5 out of 5 easily. The only problem is, at the moment, it's quite short on material for binge studiers like myself. I look forward to updates

Edit: I understand it must take a while to do all those illustrations/ animations, perhaps fitting 1 or 2 more words per illustration would make it easier to increase the amount of vocab? Just a thought.

Thank you so much! But I do agree, I need to make more levels. I definitely tried to shove in as many new words as I could in each sentence.

Since I do everything (art, animations, sentences, story) myself, it takes a lot of time. I was working on it some 12 hours a day and it took almost 3 weeks to do one level! D:

I am working on a new level at the moment, but I am also pretty busy with school.